Deborah H. Gruenfeld is an American social psychologist whose work examines the way people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. She is the author of numerous papers on the psychology of power and group behavior . She is the Joseph McDonald Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business , and is also a co-director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders at the same institution, and is a board member of Stanford’s Center for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership. She was the inaugural chairholder of the Moghadam Family Professorship in 2008. She is a board member of the LeanIn Foundation .
22-1079: Grünfeld , Grunfeld , or Gruenfeld may refer to: People [ edit ] Deborah H. Gruenfeld , American social psychologist Yehuda Gruenfeld (born 1956), Israeli chess Grandmaster A. Tom Grunfeld (born 1946), SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at Empire State College Alfred Grünfeld (1852–1924), Austrian pianist and composer Berthold Grünfeld (1932–2007), Norwegian psychiatrist, sexologist, and professor of social medicine Dan Grunfeld (born 1984), American-Romanian professional basketball player Ernie Grunfeld (born 1955), American former professional basketball player Ernst Grünfeld (1893–1962), Austrian chess grandmaster and chess writer Heinrich Grünfeld (1855–1931), Bohemian-Austrian violoncellist Henry Grunfeld (1904–1999), merchant banker Isidor Grunfeld (1900–1975), dayan and author Nina Grunfeld (born 1954), British writer, journalist, public speaker, and entrepreneur Yehuda Grunfeld (1929/1930 – 1960), econometrician in
44-405: A "central organizing force" in society, affording connection as well as control, and as "a resource that exists for the protection of groups." In 2015, Poets & Quants , a blog that covers MBA programs around the world, made public a wrongful termination suit filed by Gruenfeld's estranged husband, James A. Phills, who had been another professor at the business school. Phills alleged his firing
66-480: A Basic Emotion perspective. He has done work documenting the universality of upwards of 20 distinct facial expressions, the richness with which people can communicate emotion in the voice, and how people communicate emotions like love, compassion, and gratitude through touch. In partnership with Alan Cowen, he has offered a new computational perspective on what emotions are. With a “data-driven” approach that maps people’s emotional experiences and expressions across
88-432: A more collective self. In a recent paper with collaborator Maria Monroy, Keltner has made the case that experiences of awe account for why things like music, spirituality, and psychedelics benefit health and well-being. In his book Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life , Keltner explores the science behind well-being. The book attempts to counter the bias that we are wired to be self-interested. Keltner explores
110-660: A paper charting what awe is and how it influences our moral, spiritual and aesthetic lives. Building upon that paper, Keltner has done over 15 years of science on awe, summarized in AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and how it Can Transform Your Life . This research shows that people find experiences of awe in what he calls the eight wonders of life: the moral beauty of others, nature, moving in unison, music, visual art, spirituality, big ideas, and life and death. Awe enables individuals to integrate into strong communities by inspiring cooperative tendencies and
132-621: A prize, feel less compassion than those who suffer, and explain their success in terms of their own superior traits. Keltner has been a central voice in making the case that emotions serve important social functions, enabling us to fold into relationships vital to survival, like friendships, groups, romantic partnerships, and parent-child attachments. Guided by this framework, Keltner has done pioneering work on emotions like embarrassment, shame, love, compassion, amusement, and gratitude. Beginning with his post-doctoral fellowship with Paul Ekman, Keltner has long studied emotional expression from
154-419: A theory of power that aims to present an integrative account of the effects of power on human behaviour, suggesting that the acquisition of power has a disinhibiting effect regarding the social consequences of exercising it. The course was the inspiration for Acting With Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe , Gruenfeld's 2020 book. Gruenfeld describes misconceptions around power, which she defines as
176-743: Is a member of the american Academy of Arts and Sciences. His Science of Happiness MOOC at EdX has had over 600,000 enrollees. Wired magazine recently rated his podcasts from his course Emotion as one of the five best educational downloads, and the Utne Reader selected Keltner for one of its 50 2008 visionaries. Keltner has collaborated with directors at Pixar , including film director and animator Pete Docter in his films Inside Out and Soul. He has worked and continues to work with Facebook engineers and designers on projects such as Facebook stickers and Facebook reactions . He has also worked on projects at Google on altruism and emotion, and
198-674: Is also the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center , Together with Deborah H. Gruenfeld of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Cameron Anderson, psychologist at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, Keltner has developed the Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power , which aims to present an integrative account of the effects of power on human behavior, suggesting that
220-727: Is an art person; always looking for artistic works to alleviate stress . Dacher Keltner Dacher Joseph Keltner is a Mexican-born American professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley , who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. Keltner was born in Jalisco , Mexico, to two early members of the counterculture. Keltner's mother, a literature professor, and father, an artist and firefighter, raised both him and his brother in Laurel Canyon in
242-621: Is the co-author of two textbooks, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life , The Compassionate Instinct , The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence , and most recently, the national bestseller AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life. Keltner has published over 230 scientific articles and has written for The New York Times Magazine , The New York Times , The London Times , The Wall Street Journal , SLATE , Utne Reader . He has received numerous national prizes and grants for his research, teaching, and writing, and
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#1733085202480264-539: The Confucian idea of the jen ratio; the relationship between actions that bring the good of others to completion and those that bring out bad. The greater score is a direct relation to your happiness. In the book he touches on the qualities of gratitude, compassion, play, awe, embarrassment and teasing and how these qualities are innate in people but also can be developed. Keltner lives in Berkeley, California . He served as
286-426: The University of California, San Francisco . Keltner began his academic career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison , and then returned to University of California, Berkeley 's Psychology Department in 1996 attaining full professorship in 2002. His research focuses on the cultural and evolutionary origins of compassion , awe , love , beauty , and power , social class , and social inequality . Keltner
308-549: The 1970s. When his mother secured her first job as a professor, they moved to a conservative town in the foothills of the California Sierra Nevada. When Keltner was in high school, their family relocated to Nottingham, England. Keltner received his B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara , in 1984, he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989, and he completed three years of post-doctoral work with Paul Ekman at
330-454: The acquisition of power has a disinhibiting effect regarding the social consequences of exercising it. With collaborators Paul Piff and Michael Kraus, Keltner has offered a theoretical account of how social class shapes human thought, feeling, and action. In empirical demonstrations of this work, Keltner has shown that people from more privileged class backgrounds are more likely to drive through pedestrian crosswalks and cheat on tests to win
352-516: The court or entered into majority coalitions their written opinions tended to become less complex and nuanced. Gruenfeld's research is featured in scholarly journals and referenced in lay publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. Together with Dacher Keltner and Cameron Anderson , both of the University of California, Berkeley ; Gruenfeld has developed
374-643: The late Joseph E. McGrath at the University of Illinois . Her doctoral research on status and integrative complexity in decision-making groups, in part examining U.S. Supreme Court decisions, were awarded prizes by the American Psychological Association and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology . Her analysis of U.S. Supreme Court decisions took into consideration both the justices' status in their group as well as their ideological preferences, demonstrating that as justices gained power on
396-443: The late 1950s Other [ edit ] Grünfeld Defence , a chess opening See also [ edit ] Greenfeld Greenfield (disambiguation) Gryunfeld (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Grünfeld, Grunfeld, and Gruenfeld . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
418-401: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grünfeld&oldid=913887110 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Deborah H. Gruenfeld Gruenfeld was a graduate student of Robert S. Wyer and
440-515: The widest array of emotions studied to date and across different cultures, this work is finding: that the emotion space involves upwards of 20 distinct states, that blends in emotion are common, that each emotion category has many variations within it, and that discrete emotion concepts (e.g., “awe” “sympathy”) rather than broader constructs such as valence or arousal drive the representation of emotional experience and recognition of emotion. In 2003, Keltner and collaborator Jonathan Haidt authored
462-628: Was driven by the affair that Gruenfeld was having with the dean of the business school, Garth Saloner , apparently with the knowledge of the Stanford's Provost, John Etchemendy. The matter led to resignation of Saloner in 2015 and was covered by The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and Bloomberg . On August 1, 2017, a Santa Clara Superior Court judge rejected this suit, deciding that Phills had failed to prove he'd been discriminated against, harassed, or wrongfully terminated. In an interview by Dennis Relojo-Howell, Gruenfeld shares that she
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#1733085202480484-654: Was recently featured in Tom Shadyac ’s movie I Am . Keltner is collaborated with the Sierra Club to get veterans and inner city adolescents outdoors. Building upon his experiences in a restorative justice program with prisoners in San Quentin Prison , Keltner wrote a brief for a case – Ashker v. Governor of California – that led to the curtailment of solitary confinement in maximum-security prisons in California. He
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